Everything is a trap

What is it with validation?

It’s the 1800s, and I wasn’t alive. Do not be surprised…

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Today, I am pissed. No, I do not want to break anything. If you are not aware, things are quite uneasy in Nigeria right now.

The idea of a “society” has been nothing short of a bamboozle. This bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

Where was I? Yes!

Honore de Balzac sat on a chair just outside Paris, teetering. He wondered why nothing was in tune. Why people just blindly grab at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, yoga, painting, writing, sculpting, composing, conducting, backpacking, gender wars, copulating, gambling, drinking, hanging around, frozen yogurt, Beehives, Andrew Tate, Buddha, Christ, creamers, money, carrot juice, suicide, handmade suits, jet travel, New York City, and then it all evaporated and fell apart(was it ever not apart? I wonder).

People have to find things to do while waiting to die. I guess it is nice to have a choice. He famously quoted, “Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.” Get it? You think you need to be by yourself, but you've got to post that shit first. How else is anyone going to know you are by yourself?

If you are on Twitter and your GLO network doesn’t go off when it rains, this is actually a thing.

SOCIETY: Hey, Be yourself.

SOCIETY: No, not like that.

Highly sensitive men are too often perceived as weaklings or damaged goods. To feel intensely is seen as a form of weakness. Wait, you posted this shit on Twitter? I’d rather chew jeans.

Women who simply love themselves and want it to stay that way are threatening; angry. Do you need to work on your self-esteem, cus?

“These new Balenciaga hot shot get-off-your-high-horse kicks are great.” Candid Opinion! Tolu. We’ll need N75,000 in the ‘Lie Jar.’

Have you been out in society recently? 'Cause it's SHIT.

Why say you agree when you really don’t? Who’s going to beat you?

You don’t want to say No. You risk losing their approval. Look at you.

It’s 2023, and nothing has changed, only this time, I’m alive, and Balzac isn’t. No one asks how or what I am doing. Not really. They could not care less. Can you blame them? Can you blame me?

We’re all looking glasses, aren’t we? We people, existing only to reflect our images back to them as they’d like to be seen. Hollow vessels of consciousness to be rinsed of our own true ambitions, wants, and opinions, just waiting to be filled with the cool, tepid water of gracious compliance. That was a smart paragraph, I have to share.

For instance, we seldom ever recognize that our innermost feelings and thoughts are not actually our own. Because our society has provided us with the languages and images we use to think, we do not actually create these things. We take after our parents' emotional responses, learning from them that vomit is supposed to feel unpleasant and that feces is supposed to smell terrible. Women’s menstruation are seen as dirty or unhygienic? Why? Dear Feminists, I’m not in women’s business. I just fancy biology.

Their fears of being sick and their views toward funerals and corpses also teach them to fear death. Just by virtue of the fact that we cannot exist without a society, our social environment has tremendous ability. Our extended mind and body is society. It is you, it is I. Be like me, just blame the older generation for everything.

However, the very society that the individual is inseparable from is trying to convince him that he is distinct by exerting all of its overwhelming might! Therefore, society as we know it is engaged in a game with contradictory rules. None of this makes any sense.

Did you smoke today? Everyone’s posting 4.20. You should take a blunt. All your friends are doing it. :)

Listen. We have lost the plot. Everyone is now addicted to aesthetic consumerism, the need to have reality confirmed by strangers and experience enhanced by photographs. Folks left God to start worshipping money.

“We do not understand the earth in terms either of what it offers us or of what it requires of us, and I think it is the rule that people inevitably destroy what they do not understand.” - Wendell Berry

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